Paris: It's fun! We both work so much now that we don't have that much fun anymore, but it's great living with my sister. I trust her more than any room mate i would, so that's nice.
David: What does she do - Nicky?
Paris: Nicky has her own bag line and she's doing, um, hosting, and..
David: She has her own bag line?
Paris: Yeah, purses.
David: Wow, that's remarkable.
Paris: Mmhm
David: And, ah, doing pretty well?
Paris: Yeah they're like the biggest seller
David: Yeah. Uh, and it seemed like you guys... There was a time when you lived in New York City? The two of you?
Paris: We used to live at the Louvure.
David: Ooh.
[audience laughs]
David: [laughs] It seemed like you would always be going to parties, is that accurate? Is that a fair description?
Paris: Oh, when we were younger, it was fun. Like, what other teenagers invited to all these parties wouldn't go?
David: Right, right.
Paris: So, we did.
David: And do you still do that? Do you still go to parties every night?
Paris: No, I work every day, so I don't have time. I have to wake up at 6 a.m. every morning, so I can't go out.
David: Right, right. And you've had your fill of parties, or do you still enjoy them?
Paris: I'm over it, I'm over it.
David: And I get the feeling that you and I have very different lives. Probably.
[audience laughs]
David: I've never been to a party that I can remember, really.
[audience laughs]
Paris: That's hot.
David: Now, when you go to a party, what happens at a party?
Paris: Um, I don't know, we go through the press line, and there's like-
David: - a press line?
Paris: Yeah.
David: There's press at a party?
Paris: Well, the parties I go to, yes.
David: Really?
[Audience laughs]
[Paris laughs]
David: And is it one of those things where it's not really a party until you show up?
Paris: I don't know, I guess.
[David laughs]
[Audience laughs]
David: And then do they have, like, a buffet?
Paris: Um, [audience laughs] no, there's like people who, like, bring food: hors d'oeuvres, ??? (free tuna?).
David: And there's, like, a band and stuff?
Paris: Mmhm, sometimes.
David: Uh-huh. Dancing?
Paris: Yes.
David: Okay. And alcohol?
Paris: Yeah.
David: And do people get crazy?
Paris: Sometimes.
David: Man. And then how late do these—what—when do the parties begin because I've heard that the really good parties start quite late.
Paris: I don't like anything past two A.M. Anything past two is like all losers and weirdos, I feel.
[David and audience laugh—David: ??? (Thank you?)]
David: Past two A.M. is the end or the beginning?
Paris: L.A. ends at two and I like to go home at two. If you're out past that, you're desperate.
David: Yeah. And in London. [Paris and audience laugh] But here in New York City, things run later. It's a twenty-four hour count whereas with Los Angeles not so much, right?
Paris: Yeah.
David: Yeah. Did you go to a party every night if you wanted to?
Paris: No.
David: Let's talk about the show a little bit. I watched the last season and I grew to love the show
Paris: Thank you
David: And how much of it is actual and how much of it has been choreographed and orchestrated?
Paris: You know what, it's a TV show so I know what I'm doing. I'm kinda, like, playing this character and then—everything is real that's going on, but at the same time I'm playing with it. I know it's a TV show and I know it's supposed to be funny, we're supposed to get fired and be bad and that's what it's all about.
David: Yeah. So the idea that you don't care about these jobs working at gas stations and here and there—the Chicken Farm and so on—it's true because you really don't care
Paris: I don't care. [Paris and audience laugh]
David: Yeah, absolutely. [David and audience laugh] And your little friend Nicole last year, she had a little fit because she couldn't find her purse, so she threw bleach up on the pool table.
Paris: Yeah. [laughing]
David: Was that planned?
Paris: That was not planned.
David: What's the matter with her? [audience laughs]
Paris: I don't know. She just saw the bleach and she threw it.
David: Yeah.
Paris: Someone stole her purse. She was mad.
David: Did she get the purse back?
Paris: No.
David: Really!
Paris: Nope.
David: And then who paid for the pool table?
Paris: FOX. [David and audience laugh] I'm sorry, FOX.
David: But now you guys are gonna drive across the country or I guess now the show's already been done you started in Florida and then you go work your way to California, is that what it is?
Paris: Yup.
David: But everybody knows you now, so it's a little bit different kind of a show, isn't it?
Paris: It was fun. We had security all the time, so they would always get people away if they were, like, in the way, but it was hard. I'm just driving this, like, you know, forty foot trailer attached to this truck.
David: Right.
Paris: Me, I'm used to driving a Porsche, so it was [audience laughs] so hard [laughter] How can you—it's like driving five of them, so... [David and audience laughs]
David [laughing]: It's like you're driving five Porsches, yeah. And you know the other thing is, on the last show there were boyfriends involved. You guys met, like, boyfriends in Arkansas and stuff.
Paris: That was for show. I did not really like that guy.
David: You didn't really like the guy?
Paris: No, they wanted like a love interest and I was like, "Okay, fine." They're like, "It's good ratings," and I'm like "Great," so I had to, like, find some guy. I did not like him.
David: Really.
Paris: No, that was acting.
David: But-but [Paris and audience laugh] But it seemed to me that he really liked you. Or was he forced?
Paris: Obviously. [more in response to "really liked you" part]
David: Yeah, obviously. [laughter] But I mean, here's like an eighteen-year-old kid and suddenly you guys come into town and then—oh my God—and he was talking about coming to California and stuff. Did he ever come to California?
Paris: Are you okay? [David and audience laugh] No.
David: So he never came to California?
Paris: No.
David: Now, is there any of that sort of thing in the news show? So, so the ??? (motto?) is
Paris: No, I have a boyfriend. I have a boyfriend.
David: Oh, let me hear about the boyfriend. [audience laughs]
Paris: He is the sweetest guy. I love him, my boyfriend Nick.
David: How long have you known him, then. Nick, is it?
Paris: We've been together six months.
David: Six months. So what does Nick do?
Paris: He's a singer. The Backstreet Boys.
David: So how did you meet?
Paris: We met in L.A. We met at some award show.
David: Are the Backstreet Boys still together?
Paris: Yeah, they're recording their album right now.
David: Oh, that's great. [audience laughs] Now, are you nervous about a show-business relationship?
Paris: No.
David: Is it alright so far?
Paris: He doesn't care about that. I don't either.
David: You don't, either?
Paris: No.
David: Is it harder with your life now than the other twenty-three year old women, do you think?
Paris: Definitely, I think because, you know, the media's always watching and they make things up and it's different.
David: Yeah, yeah. Alright, we have to do a commercial, and then when we come back we'll have other things to chat about.
Paris: Okay.
David: Doesn't she look great, Paul? Competition, yeah. Competition. We'll be right back with Paris Hilton, everybody.
[Fade out]
David: I wanted to as you about your name, it's a beautiful name and is there significance to it? Is that where your parents' honeymoon, you know, when you were ... that kind of thing?
Paris: No, they just love the name Paris.
David: That's a good name. Well do you have a middle name?
Paris: Whitney.
David: Oh, it gets better and better, doesn't it?
David: Now let's talk about your old boyfriend. Is he in prison now?
Paris: No.
David: Now can't you go after him legally?
Paris: I haven't really tried, I don't know what to do.
David: But he's a worm, he's just a skunk, isn't he?
Paris: I know.
David: How long did you know that guy?
Paris: I don't know, like two years.
David: Two years?! And you had no idea he would pull this kind of crap?
Paris: I had no idea.
David: What can we do?
Paris: I don't know. You can just keep humiliating him on TV all the time. I'd appreciate that.
David: I'll have to ride over there and beat him up.
Paris: I know, it's been a really hard past six months.
David: It must have been impossible for you. But I mean, honestly, what kind of a person behaves that way? Who does that sort of thing? Would you have done that to him?
Paris: No! I don't know anyone who would do a thing like that. I've never heard of anyone doing that.
David: It's creepy, isn't it?
Paris: It's sick.
David: It's beyond creepy, it's like creep-city, this guy. And for the rest of his life he'll be trying to make money on this relationship, was supposedly romantic, intimate, and sweet and caring. What a putz! What a putz!
Paris: I know!
David: And did you like the second show better than the first show, or the other way around?
Paris: The second season was so much funnier. It's like Nichole and I on the road, we're not stuck in Arkansas with one family, it's always a different family, like we went to the nudist colony and it was so gross.
David: Yeah, I would think it was gross.
Paris: Like, all the people you would never want to see nude are nude. And, it's just like, you have to carry a towel everywhere because they're in a restaurant naked, like riding their bikes naked, it's like everywhere. It was so gross.
David: And what were you guys doing there?
Paris: We were working as maids, and like cleaning their rooms. We like walked in one guy's room and he was in there naked, and we're like, "hey, what's up?" Like, cleaning their rooms, he was just standing there, it was sick.
David: And how long did you guys work there?
Paris: Three days.
David: Three days, wow.
Paris: And we went to a night club there, it was really funny. I just saw the episode, and we were like dancing in the night club, and everyone is naked behind us doing the Macarena, and like dancing the YMCA, and Britney Spears, completely naked. It looks like some perverted music video with all these like old people behind me dancing. They all had these happy faces on them instead of censors, so it's like everyone's dancing around with happy faces, and it was so funny.
David: And then where is this nudist place located?
Paris: Florida.
David: Oh my goodness. And in addition to this, you want to be an actor, taking acting lessons?
Paris: I just did Joel Silver's new movie "House of Wax" in Australia, I just got back two weeks ago.
David: Do you like acting?
Paris: I love it.
David: Is that not difficult? It's easy?
Paris: It's easy. It's been, you know, something that I've always wanted to do. One thing that was hard, though, was that I had to like scream in the movie, 'cause I was getting killed, 'cause it's a horror film. And I was so embarrassed, so I'd make like everyone scream with me, like, the whole cast would, like makeup people, and everyone would do it with me, and then I wasn't shy anymore.
David: Well let's hear a little scream.
Paris: Are you serious? You have to do it with me.
David: Paul, will you count us down here?
Paul: Three, two, one, scream!
David and Paris: Aaaaaaaaaah!
Paris: Thanks.
David: And with "the House of Wax", there was an old movie "the House of Wax" ...
Paris: Yeah, it's a Vincent Price movie.
David: And you sing also?
Paris: I sing, yeah, my album's coming out in the coming summer.
David: What kind of stuff do you sing?
Paris: It's like blondie, it's like rock and pop mixed together. It's hot.
David: And how long have you been singing?
Paris: I've been singing my whole life. My mom has a great voice. I've always sung, and then I was too embarrassed, and when I finally won the CD, I was good.
David: So ten years from now, do you want to be an actress or a singer, or what do you want to be?
Paris: Both.
David: The whole thing?
Paris: Yeah.
David: That'll be nice. And are you unbelievably wealthy?
Paris: My family is, but I make my own money. That's why I'm working, because I like making my own money.
David: How much money, with one phone call, could you come up with? One phone call.
Paris: I don't ask for money from my family.
David: Oh no, I know you're not asking. I'm asking.
David: But do you do household chores? Do you cook your own meals?
Paris: I love to cook.
David: You like to cook? And you clean up your own apartment, you mop the floors ...
Paris: I've got a house, so I don't clean as my income but sometimes I clean.
David: And you get along well with the maid? That's all fine?
Paris: I love her. She's the best.
David: So when we see you on the television show, it is more or less a character that you're playing, you're not entirely like that?
Paris: No, I'm not like that. I'm just playing a character.
David: What are you going to do for the rest of the summer?
Paris: I'm working. I'm doing another movie in Miami and finishing my album.
David: Wow, so it's just crazy, isn't it?
Paris: Yeah.
David: Yeah, well, good for you.
Paris: Thank you.
David: And what are you doing tonight right after the show?
Paris: I'm going to dinner with my mom and dad, and my brothers and sister.
David: Where are you going to dinner?
Paris: Butter. This place downtown.
David: You see, I don't know.
Paris: It's cool.
David: It must be, sure. It probably doesn't open 'til midnight, right? One of those kinds of places?
Paris: No, it opens at like nine.
David: Well I hope you have a nice time down there.
Paris: Thank you.
David: Paul, do you have any questions?
Paris: No, she can step down.
David: You know, now this is the character I want to see. This is my reality.
Paris: Thank you.
David: You certainly seem just very sweet, very pleasant, very nice. And you travel with your pets, too. Do you like dogs, right?
Paris: I love pets. I was actually in Vegas, and I bought a goat, a kinkajou, which is like a half raccoon and half monkey, two ferrets, and a rat, and I brought them all to the airport, and they're like, "This is not a traveling circus." And I was like, well, you know, like I would put them in cages and whatever, and they were like, "No." So I had to take a limo back for six hours with all these animals crapping everywhere. It was so sick. But I got them back to LA okay. They were cute.
David: And do you still have the animals?
Paris: Yes.
David: And you just hired a limousine to drive you from Los Angeles .... Las Vegas to LA?
Paris: I was going to go in a cab.
David: Yeah. With all of the animals. Well, good ... for you, I guess. I guess the story ends ...
Paris: I love animals!
David: She loves animals. The show, "The Simple Life - Two" roadtrip begins its second season on Wednesday. Are you excited?
Paris: I'm so excited.
David: Well good luck. And thank you very much for coming back. It really means a lot for me to have you here. Thank you so much. Paris Hilton, everybody. We'll be right back with Patti Scialfa.
